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...Greg Alvarez...
...northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua and a growing constituency among the middle class. Traditionally, the P.A.N. has had two weaknesses: a failure to build grass-roots support and a tendency to recede into the shadows except at election time. The P.A.N.'s newly elected leader, Luis Alvarez, 67, is determined, however, to make his party a truly national...
...Alvarez won attention last July when he protested controversial ruling- party victories in Chihuahua elections by staging a 40-day hunger strike and organizing sit-ins on highways and bridges that tied up traffic across the Rio Grande. Alvarez acknowledges that under the current system no P.A.N. candidate can seriously hope to be President, but dim prospects do not soften his rhetoric. "How could we possibly do worse?" he asks. "This government is inefficient, corrupt and has brought the country to disaster...
...case of the Philippines many of its projects came about through the "old-boy" network. Timmer was asked by a former student of his at Stanford, who is a Philippine official, to head a task force on food logistic issues. And Thomas was contacted by his former student Alvarez, Minister of Agrarian Reform...
Thomas says he believes the fact that Alvarez was comfortable with Thomas greatly assisted his research. Alvarez "gave me carte blanche to look at the whole scene," he explains...